Here, we argue that opiate addiction and psychostimulant addiction are behaviourally and neurobiologically distinct and that the differences have important implications for addiction treatment, ...

Opiate-dependent parents have a high risk of being carriers of most risk alleles examined except DRD4EX3 (allele 7). There was no difference whether the addicted parents had or did not have ADHD.

Office-based treatment of opiate addiction with a sublingual-tablet formulation of buprenorphine and naloxone has been proposed, but its efficacy and safety have not been well studied.We conducted ...

Heroin is a short-acting opiate, and withdrawal symptoms can begin 4–6 hours after the last dose and persist for 7–14 days. Symptoms of methadone withdrawal will begin 12–48 hours after the ...

If you take or use opioids for more than a few weeks, you may start to need them to feel OK. Your body can be affected in many ways if you stop them suddenly. That's known as withdrawal. Learn ...

Nancy Rommelmann reviews “Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic,” by Sam Quinones.